Word: filmland
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...things and many more: literary agent for such science fiction authors as Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, A.E. van Vogt, Curt Siodmak and L. Ron Hubbard; actor and talisman in more than 50 films (The Howling, Beverly Hills Cop III, Amazon Women on the Moon); editor of Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine and creator of the Vampirella comic book franchise. But each of these trades was an exponent of his educated ardor for science fiction, fantasy and horror, and his need to share that consuming appetite...
...found out about "King Kong" from "Famous Monsters of Filmland." This was a magazine founded in 1958 by a guy named Forrest J. Ackerman, a true enthusiast of horror films (nowadays he'd be putting up an obsessive web site with hundreds of pages). If there were people screaming, "Famous Monsters" covered it: the latest Vincent Price film, Japanese monster flicks, any flavor of Dracula or Frankenstein. There were stories on makeup, on directors, on actors, on special effects techniques. There was the "Fangmail" and the monthly "Horrorscope." The back of the book sold items like magic kits...
Inside "Famous Monsters of Filmland" #27 was Part 2 of an article on the making of "King Kong." I mean, I'd heard of it, of course, but I really had no idea of what I had been missing. Keep in mind that I'd been a stop-frame fan for years, and here was this article with these fantastic photos that implied that I had somehow missed the greatest stop-frame flick of them all. It was the movie that had inspired Harryhausen...